Belief Systems Quotes - Page 6

• This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Religious, Survival

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Everyone has a belief system in his or her mind, a story about the way they think the world actually is, even if they haven't thought about it much or worked out all the details.

  Greg Koukl

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.

  Chevy Stevens

  Book, Character, Coping Mechanisms

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• My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."

  Emma Stone

  Mom, Dad, Mean

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Belief, Embarrassing, Shallow

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• The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.

  Michael Parenti

  Christian, Fashion, Political

  Michael Parenti (2010). “God and His Demons”

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• My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

  Winona Ryder

  Mother, Atheist, Buddhist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Reality, People, Decision

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2014

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• Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

  Ricky Gervais

  Atheism, Hobbies, Belief

  "Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions" by Ricky Gervais, blogs.wsj.com. December 22, 2010.

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• Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the world shows that pretty much any idea will do - it need not reflect reality or truth, merely function to fascinate, distract, and compel. We are designed for belief, not for truth.

  Terry Rossio

  Reality, Ideas, Understanding

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• Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.

  Michael Keaton

  Thinking, Reality, Hands

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• Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them... A religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

  Martin Amis

  Religious, Reality, Atheism

  "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Martin Amis' lecture at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iop.harvard.edu. January 30, 1997.

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• I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if my parents' God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? And not just their beliefs about God and whatever else is out there, about right and wrong, about selfishness?

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Parent, What If

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• There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy.

  Libba Bray

  Country, Together, Democracy

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• Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that God invented us think that the Earth can’t be more than 6,000 years old. So I guess it’s a question of belief. My belief system doesn’t support a creator as such, as we can call God, who created us in His/Her/Its image.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Morgan Freeman on Inventing God, Aliens Eating Us and His Survival Odds in ‘Dark Knight Rises’". Interview with Tim Molloy, www.thewrap.com. June 7, 2012.

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• A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Belief

  Interview with Mark Victor Hansen, healthywealthynwise.com.

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• We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.

  Christine Caine

  God, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Apr 10, 2017

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• Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations, going 'it will never work. And they lose their dreams, but they get their needs. The needs are not like goals. They're not like belief systems that are built into you.

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, People, Goal

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It is impossible to park a Ferrari (healthy new belief systems) in a space that is taken up by an old wreck (negative old belief systems).

  Melanie

  Taken, Space, Healthy

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• I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or rally, and just by a paradigm shift in your belief system.

  Brooke Burns

  People, Challenges, Hardship

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• 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Age, Gold

  1990 The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.

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• First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go as a collective community.

  Kevin Allen

  Real, Ambition, Organization

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.

  Jodi Long

  Death, Belief, Truth Is

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• Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.

  Joan Baez

  People, Risk, Way

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• Everybody has an opinion. I think everybody has the right to believe whatever they want. I don't ever cast judgment on someone's belief system.

  Tom Brady

  Believe, Thinking, Want

  Tom Brady Press Conference at Gillette Stadium, www.courant.com. January 12, 2015.

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